General Machining & Manufacturing Processes

Rockford Systems Inc. offers a new line of electrically interlocked heavy-duty lathe shields.

The Vollmer of America Corp. recently held its PCD Days at its headquarters in Carnegie, Pa. This brief video report offers a glimpse at two of the machines on display during the technical conference: the QXD 200 rotary erosion and QWD760 wire-erosion units.

Exhibiting the tools and the talent in which other fabricators reportedly do not, LeJeune Steel Co. of Minneapolis, specializes in bridge fabrication using Peddinghaus equipment.

The Oak Signature brand of metalworking fluids integrates science and technology to help customers become more efficient in the manufacturing process. The products, which include cleaning fluids, stamping and drawing lubricants, machining and grinding fluids, corrosion preventives, and specialty products, are part of the CIMCOOL family of metalworking fluids.

With years of experience providing custom cutting tool solutions to aerospace and other composites users, Kennametal is now introducing a line of Beyond solid-carbide KCN05 routers specifically engineered for successfully machining CFRP.

The Eriez Hydroflow Tank Side Coalescer is designed to sit behind a metalworking shop's machining center and skim free-floating tramp oil out of the machine coolant.

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. delivered an industrial heat treating box furnace for use with inert atmosphere to Mott Corp., a provider or porous metal products and filters.

Siemens Industry has released Simatic STEP 7 Safety Advanced V11 option as part of its TIA (totally integrated automation) Portal, providing end users with all configuration and programming tools required for generating a fail-safe program within Siemens TIA Portal.

Walter USA LLC has expanded its versatile Walter Valenite Xtra-tec insert drill line with additional products at both ends of the diameter spectrum.

Harvey Tool Co. LLC has released its fall 2011 catalog, which provides information about 400 new tools.

As a leading provider of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates and parts, Jacquet Metals knows that faster, cleaner cuts is the way to keep customers coming back. That is why they recently purchased upgrades to four plasma cutting machines.

Kistler has introduced the USB-based Type 2825A DynoWare universal data acquisition and analysis software, designed for direct compatibility with Kistler stationary and rotary measuring systems, including single- and multi-component dynamometers and other force sensors.